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" NCIS producer Gary Glasberg has revealed new details about the upcoming ninth season. He told Entertainment Weekly that DiNozzo&amp;#039;s mission to uncover a leak in the NCIS squad will continue to be explored in future episodes. &amp;quot;That storyline will probably pick up in the season opener,&amp;quot; he confirmed. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s definitely something that will impact the team. I&amp;#039;m not sure yet how long it will go on, but it will definitely have ramifications that we&amp;#039;ll follow through for a while.&amp;quot; Glasberg also insisted that the new SecNav (Jude Ciccolella) is &amp;quot;not [intended as] an adversary&amp;quot; for Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his team. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just that he has a different approach to things,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s information that he&amp;#039;s privy to that will drive us through a lot of season nine.&amp;quot; He added that &amp;quot;politics and Washington&amp;quot; will play &amp;quot;a big part&amp;quot; in the show&amp;#039;s ninth season, which is expected to premiere in the fall. &amp;quot;It will give us the opportunity to see another side of NCIS that we haven&amp;#039;t focused on quite as much,&amp;quot; he suggested. A ninth season of NCIS has already been commissioned after the show achieved a ratings high of 22.85m viewers in February. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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